Genesis 42:19
If you be true, let one of your brethren be bound in the prison; and go you, carry the provision which is needed in your house,
Targum Onkelos
In The King James Version
In Context
18And Joseph said to them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear before the Lord.
Cross References
Genesis 41:56And the famine was over all the face of the land; and Joseph opened all the granaries in which was the corn, and sold to the Mizraee, and the famine became mighty in the land of Mizraim.
Genesis 42:26And they laid their corn upon their asses, and went thence.
Genesis 45:23And to his father he sent ten asses laden with the good things of Mizraim, and ten she-asses laden with corn, and bread and provisions for the way.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 42:8-21
Joseph Speaks Roughly to His Brethren. ( b. c. 1706.) 7 And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food. 8 And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him. 9 And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said unto them, Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come. 10 And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy… Read the whole commentary →